To Whom Do We Owe This Money, Exactly? There has been some great writing lately questioning the logic behind our glorious coalition government’s decision to fuck everyone over to preserve a status quo. This is one of the better ones.

Marcel Duchamp’ Étant donnés was proffered to me by Matt in reference to something I was blathering on about with my TTV hat on. I’d not heard of it. It sounds magical.

Time for Change: On Birmingham’s Buses. A campaign for Birmingham’s buses to give change. I’d go one further and give the local transport authority Centro some teeth and strip National Express of their defacto monopoly over tickets and passes. If it’s good enough for London it’s good enough for us.

Project Platform is something I’d heard about but not gotten around to exploring. It’s one of those “young people blogging about their area” things and, yes, I’m looking at it now because I might be working with them but I’ve got to say, I’m impressed with the standard of the writing. Of course, the funding ends this summer but I reckon they’ll continue in some form. One to watch and nurture.

Tweetbot – just when you thought Twitter’s monopoly over iPhone apps meant there’d be no more innovation in the space, Tapbots enter the arena. It’s nice, it’s not radically different to Tweetie-as-was, it has some rough edges, but for a 1.0 release it’s a damn good start. Happy to support and recommend it.

Ken Campbell: The Great Caper. Tom Lennon digs out a bit of Robert Anton Wilson history – the nine hour stage adaptation of his Illuminatus trilogy. To quote Tom: “after listening to the Great Caper serialisation I found myself doing that thing middle-aged men rarely do: I wanted to be older. If I was older I could have seen this glorious folly in 1977, instead of pissing my life away on a diet of Star Wars, Spangles and The Six Million Dollar Man.”